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Health Care Need Designations

Health care designations are a way of analyzing health care access (or the lack of access) for all of the people in a geographic area (e.g., Morrow County), a specific population in an area (e.g., homeless individuals in Jackson County), and a certain type of facility (e.g., Federally Qualified Health Centers). These designations provide eligibility for some federal (e.g., National Health Service Corps) and state (e.g., Oregon loan repayment) resources to help Oregon’s underserved areas.

Oregon Recognized Designations

ORH Area of Unmet Health Care Need (AUHCN)

Each year ORH assesses the unmet health care needs for rural and frontier Oregon communities. The AUHCN designation uses nine variables to focus on physical, mental and oral primary care access needs. Total scores as well as details and maps for each Unmet Need Variable are available in the report.